Alex Caruso‘s four-year, $37MM contract has a $3MM guarantee in the fourth season, ESPN’s Bobby Marks reveals in an Instagram video. The Bulls used up $8.6MM of their $9.536MM mid-level exeption for Caruso’s first-year salary, giving them just enough room to sign No. 38 overall pick Ayo Dosunmu, Marks adds.
We have more on the Bulls:
- Second-round pick Marko Simonovic had an impressive summer league debut, contributing 13 points and five rebounds in 15 minutes against New Orleans, Sam Smith of the team’s website writes. “This is everything new for me,” said Simonovic, a 6’11” power forward. “I’m coming from Europe and everything is different. But I feel really good and people tell me I look good. I think next season I can help the team.”
- The Bulls have renounced their rights to Denzel Valentine and Cristiano Felicio, according to the RealGM transactions log. While that doesn’t rule out the possibility of re-signing those players, Chicago needed to renounce the rights to them and seven other players to complete all its off-season moves. Felicio signed with a club in Germany earlier this week.
- Patrick Williams believes he can learn plenty from DeMar DeRozan, Rob Schaefer of NBC Sports Chicago writes. “He’s a really good wing in this league. Mostly, I want to be at the level that he’s at,” Williams said. “When he gets here, I’ll definitely ask him some questions about how he plays in the mid-post and kind of what he sees after an important possession. I’m definitely excited to learn from not only him but everyone else as well.” DeRozan was officially acquired on Wednesday.
- In turn, DeRozan is impressed with the talent level on the roster, Darnell Mayberry of The Athletic writes. “Great organization. The history behind it is definitely amazing. But for sure, the talent,” he said. “Looking at players like Zach (LaVine), I’ve been a fan of Zach since he’s been in the league. Just looking at the overall squad. Seeing (Nikola) Vučević there, that was my teammate in college. So, it’s been great.”
This made me smile
I feel like I know 12 of the roster for sure depending on them resigning Dotson to another 2 way contract but what happens with lauri and who is the veteran big man to come off the bench? Unfortunately seems like they truly need to add Thad young haha
12 of the roster are almost certainly known, 10 active contracts and Ayo, Simonovic
Sorry Pat you will never be at the level DMDR is, as simple as!
Not so much a knock on your game, despite been plainly bad in your rookie season, but more of how good DMDR is, specially since been in SAS, just can’t see you ever reaching a level close to DMDR, but you might still be a decent rotation player for a team one day, don’t give up & keep working!
Hello…are you doraemon from the future???
Lmao
El you will never be the commenter that Sillivan is, but keep trying and you probably will look just as silly most of the time. Williams is going to be great, he is one of the youngest players in the league.
I wish the Bulls traded Valentine instead of Temple.